9 Dragons - Martial Arts MMO

[cadburys_egg]

9 Dragons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9Dragons is set in ancient China during the Ming Dynasty - a time of great chaos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were nine clans (nicknamed Dragons) who developed their own unique philosophy and accompanying martial arts in order to survive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the game you will join one of the clans and there you will learn their secrets, and create your own individual fighting style based on their teaching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone else heard of it/play it?

 

 

 

If you have, post your name and i'll add ya. :D

 

 

 

If not, read on!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are 8 different clans you can join:

 

 

 

• Wu-Tang - Sword users.
   
   
   
  Shaolin - Polemace users.
   
   
   
  League of Beggars - Staff users.
   
   
   
  Heavenly Demon - Saber users.
   
   
   
  Sacred Flowers - Knife users.
   
   
   
  Brotherhood of Thieves - Spear users.
   
   
   
  The Union of Noble Families - Fan users.
   
   
   
  Iron Fist - Hand and feet users.
   
   
   
  Black Dragon - Scythe users.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each clan has it's own fighting style and may use either magic (Chun Ki), the clans symbolistic weapon or their own fist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game doesn't measure level by numbers, it measures by Cheng and what stage of development you are at.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You progress as follows:

 

 

 

• Losing Self.
   
   
   
  Gathering Chi.
   
   
   
  Opening Chi.
   
   
   
  ???

 

 

 

[i'm only Opening Chi 4, so I don't know any further than that ^^;]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You begin at Losing Self 1. This is when you are honing your basic Kung Fu skills and perform tasks for your respective master until s/he teaches you more advanced skills.

 

 

 

Once you advance from Losing Self 12 to Gathering Chi 1, you are able to learn more advanced Kung fu and may adventure beyond your starting village. Once you hit GC8, you can apply to become part of your respective clan and gain even more advanced moves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game itself isn't very graphics intensive, but it is very eye pleasing. Screenshots have been taken in advance;

 

 

 

Short skirt is shoooort

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm currently wearing the christmas outfit only because it's currently more appealing than without:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's even a very good party system in this game. You are free to party with up to 9 other people. When you join/create a party, you get a little list of the members and their current health and vital points to the left of the screen.

 

 

 

You can choose whether to share experience or for it to be individual.

 

 

 

You can also whether monster drops will be shared or only the killer may recieve the spoils.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camera angles are fully posable and you can even look through your own characters eyes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game also features a good night and day system. No new options, as far as I know, become available at night or day specifically, but monsters react differently. Thieves and bandits are more agressive during the night and animals are less likely to attack you than during day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dusk:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Night:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blarg, anyway... My name is Caqtuar, i'm a Wu-tang White Tiger and currently at OC4. Feel free to "hyt!" me anytime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uh... discuss!

[unknownmasterofnothing]

is this a rpg?

[cadburys_egg]

is this a rpg?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't believe you just asked that.

[indy500fan]

Nice post Cad. I don't have anything to say about the game, I just thought it was nice not seeing a post with the name of the game, one or two lines asking if anyone plays it, and if we are lucky a link to the game, but with no descriptions.

[kido14]

 

is this a rpg?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't believe you just asked that.

 

 

 

Lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So is there anything that makes this game special compared to the other 20 MMORPGs I can download for free?

[elmo_killer6]

never even heard of it but from the screenies it looks like the page setup is alot like Guild Wars

[cadburys_egg]

 

 

is this a rpg?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't believe you just asked that.

 

 

 

Lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So is there anything that makes this game special compared to the other 20 MMORPGs I can download for free?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, it claims itself to be the "first authentic martial arts MMO". The graphics are also a whole lot better than any other free MMO i've played.

 

 

 

Not only do you level up as your skills, you level up mastery of weapons seperately and even your skills again are seperate. Instead of getting a weapon and being able to do good damage with it, you need to train with that weapon and your skill level with it will increase. Also at Cheng 3 for a skill for attacking, you will begin doing 2-hit combos and at Cheng 5, 3-hit combos.

 

 

 

Skills need to be learnt by going to Kung Fu masters and then proceeding to train them before they can be used (Training dummies).

 

 

 

Also, any one can use any weapon, but if the weapon is too high of a level, instead of being not able to wield it, it merely decreases it's durability faster.

 

 

 

But to put it bluntly, I haven't ever played a game even similiar to this.

[BlueLancer]

I thought this is a purely fighting game, but it looks very much like Lineage. :cry: (Bored of it) Looking for unique games...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll give it a shot anyways, I'll message you if I see you in the game.

[apinagez]

It looks nice, may get me back into MMOs for a while even. I'll register as soon as I'm back home.

 

 

 

Anyway, does it fall into that 'kill X beings/collect X items' marasm (like Silkroad)? What are the tasks your master usually assign to you?

[deloriagod]

Hmm.. I might check this game out later :-k

[Lionheart_0]

Downloading it now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks interesting, but from your description of how you learn the skills... sounds almost like WoW.

[deloriagod]

it looks very much like Lineage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's what I thought too when I looked at the screen shots :P Though I played on L2X which got shut down :(

[cadburys_egg]

I thought this is a purely fighting game, but it looks very much like Lineage. :cry: (Bored of it) Looking for unique games...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll give it a shot anyways, I'll message you if I see you in the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's not purely fighting, but about 80% of it is. You do some special collection quests where you need to go off and fight powerful foes with a party and also basic collection quests where you will randomly recieve special items from monsters to return for better clothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It looks nice, may get me back into MMOs for a while even. I'll register as soon as I'm back home.

 

 

 

Anyway, does it fall into that 'kill X beings/collect X items' marasm (like Silkroad)? What are the tasks your master usually assign to you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tasks he usually assigns to begin with are to learn. You are taught a Kung Fu technique and he tells you to go off and get to Cheng 2 with it. There are a few quests where he requests you to kill a few monsters and collect items, yes.

 

 

 

Alot of the latter quests involve searching for chests/items hidden and returning them and there are alot of delivering quests.

 

 

 

They aren't particularly long quests (usually take around 5 minutes to do), but most of the rewards aren't particularly great and consist of generally experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But saying that, there isn't a huge grind in this game. You should be able to become a clan member in around 2 days. (Depending whether you party/hardcore train alot)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bah, if anyone does play, message me in game and i'll come help you by giving you some items and buffing you with some skills.

[Lionheart_0]

GRRRRRR! Free MMOs dislike me or something. I tried downloading from the first source, and i got an error when i unzipped the files. The EXE just doesn't want to work...

[Nadril]

Hmm, didn't realize 9dragons was out already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It might be worth checking into for me, I've seen some hype about it on MMORPG.com already.

[cadburys_egg]

Hmm, didn't realize 9dragons was out already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It might be worth checking into for me, I've seen some hype about it on MMORPG.com already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I was in the closed beta. ^_^ Been open beta for about 2 weeks now. They had a character wipe when it entered open beta and they're planning another one when it launches. From the e-mails I recieved it sounds like it's going to be a P2P game. :|

[vladmoney]

Looks a lot like Kal Online and Silkroad. I would try it, if I actually had the time to invest into rpg anymore :wall: .

[Echofish]

I hope this has a little 'tutorial island' or something like that. The graphics seem pretty good too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This might pry me off RS for a little while. I'll HYT if I catch you there

[cadburys_egg]

I hope this has a little 'tutorial island' or something like that. The graphics seem pretty good too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This might pry me off RS for a little while. I'll HYT if I catch you there

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly there isn't a "tutorial island" per say, but your master should teach you all that is required. Or if not, I can help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I should post this incase anyone wants to get in touch; there are two forms of communication. IM in-game is pretty straight forward but there is another form called Pidgeonogram. Basically an inbox for messages if you are offline at the time someone wishes to contact you. So if you want to give me a "hyt" in that, I will know. :)

[andufusthebronze]

can't find the website. what is it? and is the xmas outfit still avaidable?

[cadburys_egg]

can't find the website. what is it? and is the xmas outfit still avaidable?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The link is the first post...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes the outfit is still available, it will disappear at the end of January.

[andufusthebronze]

as in the avaidabilty of the outfit or the outfit itself?

[azntemplar_00]

Looks really interesting, esp. since I practice chinese martial arts myself :-). Unfortunately, I'll probably have to wait until summer to actually try it (junior year :( )

[andufusthebronze]

I can't get the download thing to start can someone help me?

[cadburys_egg]

Blar, forgot to post this so I will now.

 

 

 

There's quite an interesting twist to 9 Dragons, you HP is determined by your Constitution level and how many external wounds you have. The maximum HP you can have is your maximum overall minus your external wounds. So if I had 600 HP but 50 wounds, i'd only be able to have 550 HP.

 

 

 

Same goes for Vital Energy with internal wounds.